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This blog predates Jack Swagger's gimmick shift by a year. I named it after Hulk Hogan's entrance theme.Mon, 18 May 2015 06:43:13 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Payback Live Reactions – Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler, Tag Team Championship and Ryback vs. Bray Wyatt by Arron Husteadhttps://realamericanwrestleblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/payback-live-reactions-sheamus-vs-dolph-ziggler-tag-team-championship-and-ryback-vs-bray-wyatt/#comment-7
Mon, 18 May 2015 06:43:13 +0000http://realamericanwrestleblog.wordpress.com/?p=963#comment-7After going back and watching the Bray Wyatt vs. Ryback match now that I can give it my full attention, I have to say that spot where Wyatt dove off the apron with a Back Splash on Ryback on the floor was outstanding. It was reminiscent of Cactus Jack. I am a big fan of both guys and thought they did okay together, but lack of quality writing for their program I think hurt them a bit. I think this was one instance where Bray Wyatt being less cryptic would have been beneficial. While the fans love his cryptic promos, they can make it hard to build a good program between him and his opponents at times. We got no insight into what Wyatt stood to gain from beating Ryback or what he wanted to accomplish in the match. The best I can guess is that he just tries to mow through all of the big heroes on his way to the top, but I think Wyatt would be well served to declare a finite goal where we can measures the success or failure of his agenda. Like with his program with John Cena last year, his goal was to tear down Cena’s legacy, to prove to everyone that Cena’s beliefs were wrong and the way he was going to do it was by turning Cena into a monster and when that failed by turning the children against him. I thought that was a great and well written program. Then he gets this push to set up for a match against Undertaker and he loses, which is fine. He comes out of it with a new moniker for himself – the new face of fear. But what has he done with that moniker since. He’s done one sneak attack on Ryback and a lot of TitanTron promos without even coming out to the ring more than a handful of times since Wrestlemania. He hasn’t played any kind of mind games. He hasn’t laid out a goal for himself. They just randomly paired him up with Ryback for tonight because they didn’t have anything else for them to do, it felt like. I’m glad that they made the most of it and put together what turned out to be a pretty good match. However, if they continue their program, we need a lot more than Feed Me More vs. Fear Me More. With the Wyatt character, we need something other than wins or losses to track his progress and measure his achievements. He needs to be taking other characters and fundamentally changing them as a result of their interaction with him or else he needs to be taking something away from them in order to live up to his character. Or without any of that, he has to at least do more scary things and play more mind games. Like when the Undertaker because a cult leader, he abducted people. He took a decent sized chunk of the roster and turned them into his minions. Phineas Godwinn became Mideon. Mabel became Viscera. Farooq and Bradshaw became The Acolytes. He completely reshaped the landscape of the company while being legitimately scary. Creative for Bray Wyatt needs to step up their game.
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Mon, 27 Apr 2015 05:10:51 +0000http://realamericanwrestleblog.wordpress.com/?p=921#comment-6Naomi making it a “fair” match doesn’t really fit her character any more, though attacking Brie would. She’s mid heel shift at the moment, so she’d make it unbalanced in her favor or take it on the chin again and lose. However, I do expect her to win the championship within the next two months, depending on what the Bellas future plans are. And the night she does it will likely not be against Nikki one-on-one because you don’t set up your next heel champion by having her cheat to beat your current heel champion. You have her cheat to beat a face or steal the win from a face in a Triple Threat.
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Mon, 27 Apr 2015 04:51:29 +0000http://realamericanwrestleblog.wordpress.com/?p=921#comment-5I gotta say I was really overly frustrated with the result, but I am just hoping and praying this is just a minor set back. The match was great in my opinion, but the result was not what I wanted. I love the new music! Somehow I just knew that would happen tonight. She must feel good coming out to her own track! I can’t wait to see whats next, but I have a feeling this isnt over. Maybe a rematch tomorrow? Its not new for an interferance to become grounds for a rematch. If I was booking this Id have Naomi make it a fair match by taking Brie out before she can even make it to the ring.
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